"Enlace" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... burden than as an ornament; here, numerous families of the orchis, with their singular forms, showy and variegated blossoms, climb along the knotty stems of the tall monarchs of the forests; from their feet spring up, as if to enlace them with a magic network, the brilliant passiflora, the vanilla with its intoxicating perfume, the banisteria whose roots seem to have dived into mines of gold and borrowed from thence the color of its petals! Hither the birds of ...
— The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe • Joseph Xavier Saintine
... free, Bedews a pathway from her throne;—and stops Before the foot of her arch enemy, And with her little arms enfolds his knee, That shows more grisly from that fair embrace; But she will ne'er depart. "Alas!" quoth she, "My painful fingers I will here enlace Till I have gain'd your pity for ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... grasp of partnership To one of other race— A plane: he barked him strip by strip From upper bough to base; And me therewith; for gone my grip, My arms could not enlace. ...
— Wessex Poems and Other Verses • Thomas Hardy
... to a broken limb by letting it swing about," he said, "than by the fracture itself. Now four of us together. Pass your hands beneath him, enlace your fingers, and when I ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn
... ere Robbia's cornice, fine, With flowers and fruits which leaves enlace, Was set where now ...
— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps |
